I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.